iSiloX Clipper Suggestions

[melvynadam]

It seems to me that the clipper has gone for quite a while without any serious enhancements. For a long time I've been thinking of ways it could be improved.

There are so many instances on these forums of people asking for plugins/extensions to be able to use the clipper with other browsers. Is it on the drawing board? Is there a timeframe for this to happen? It seems plenty of (paying) iSilo users like me would really appreciate this.

Since almost all alternate browsers (Opera, Firefox, Mozilla, etc) have support for tabbed browsing (it's even possible with IE6 (http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/sterlingtimes/vpost?id=4187&trail=15#1)) it's not a huge leap of the imagination that the functionality to clip from multiple open pages would be a massive boon to regular clippers.

A dropdown menu like this (http://forum.isilo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=96&stc=1) would be very useful.

The "multiple open URLs" option could lead to a list like this (http://forum.isilo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=95&stc=1).

Currently I have five Firefox tabs open that I intend to clip and take home for reading on my journey. If I could push a button in Firefox to activate the clipper and just clip all of them to a default named clipping (e.g. "Date&Time") it would be much easier than my current method: copy one URL, open IE and paste the URL, run the clipper and press 'Properties', select the 'Source Tab', copy the other URLs into separate entries, clip.

Other suggestions I know have been made before: (1) enable logging in the clipper and (2) append the URL to the clipped file. I'm including them in this post as I think we need one central place for ideas on the clipper.

Anyone else have any idea for improvements to the clipper?

[darkcompass]

I've not seen anything yet in regards to tabbed windows in IE, and the official clipper is still only IE.
There is an alternative clipper which works with Firefox but it would involve clicking on tab, clicking on predefined bookmark, then clicking "Get Site" in the java app. a little quicker than sutting and pasting it into IE methinks at least.
Its Agypaste, still in beta but working well, at http://www.agynamix.com/cms
Are these 5 sites always the same sites (news)?

[melvynadam]

I've not seen anything yet in regards to tabbed windows in IE
Roland, did you miss the link in my post?
Thanks for the link to agypaste.


Are these 5 sites always the same sites?
No - it was an example. I use iSiloX extensively for sites that I regularly want to download. The clippings are usually individual pages (0 links deep) from random sources on the web that I happen to want on any given day.

[darkcompass]

I did miss your link first glance, paying $14 for basically an plug-in a bit much in my opinion seeming as you could download the avant browser (makeup for IE) which will give you the same for nothing.
I would suggest moving permenantly to Firefox, I have, along with a number of collegues.

I was just thinking that if the sites were the same then a scheduled isilox(c), would have sufficed.

[melvynadam]

Good grief! I have absolutely no intention of buying the add-on I linked to it was an example of how the iSiloX developers ought to consider tabbed browsing as very much "here" and not somewhere off in the future.

I haven't used plain vanilla IE6 for over a year. I switched to MyIE2 a long time ago then about a month ago I moved to Maxthon and recently I'm trying out Firefox.

The problem is that I use the clipper extensively and whilst a plugin exists for Maxthon and MyIE2 no such animal is available for Firefox.

[melvynadam]

Back in 2004 I wrote:

"It seems to me that the clipper has gone for quite a while without any serious enhancements."

I didn't dream that three years later nothing would have changed. Even the FF extension I linked to in my OP has progressed (it's now free under a GNU license) but iSiloX Clipper has barely changed.

Can we ever expect progress on this tool? Is an FF extension too much of a pipedream? Even an IE plugin which behaved like the one I laid out in my OP would be a wonderful improvement.